OPEN CLASS

By Fu Xiaoyan

Unit 20 Archaeology

Period 2 The King of Stonehenge

Teaching Aims

1. Train the students’ reading ability.

2. Learn and master the following words and phrases: distinction, centimetre, clay, arrow, dozen, cushion, spare, tend, tend to, approximately, monument, homeland, in terms of.

3. Talk about archaeological discoveries.

Teaching Important Points

1. Improve students’ reading ability.

2. Help students master the use of some useful words and expressions.

3. Enable the students to understand something about archaeology.

Teaching Difficult Points

1. How to make students master the main idea of each part.

2. How to help the students master the use of some words and phrases.

Teaching Methods

1. Individual work to understand the main idea of the whole passage.

2. Pair work or group work to get every student to take part in the activities.

Teaching Aids

1. Multimedia 2. Blackboard

Teaching Procedures

Step 1. Greetings and Lead-in

Greet the whole class as usual.

Show students some pictures of unearthed objects. And then ask students to answer the two questions:

1. Do you know what they are?

2. Can you tell me why they were buried with the king or emperor after they died?

Encourage students to try their best to talk about these pictures.

Step 2. Scanning

Give the students five minutes to scan the text and find the answers to the questions on the screen. Collect the word and then write down them on the blackboard.

Show the screen:

1. What objects were found in the grave of the King of Stonehenge?

2. What materials were there in the grave?

3. Why were these things given to the king after he died?

Five minutes later, check the answers.

Step 3 Reading

Read the text and ask students to think about this question:

How many reasons are mentioned in the text for the importance of the discovery? What are they?

THE KING OF STONEHENGE

Find the king

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The objects found in the grave

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Why the discovery is important

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reason 1 reason 2 reason 3

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richest and oldest three miles away from Central Europe

By now we’ve had a general idea about the text, but the most important thing for us to know is that the objects are useful to find some information from the cultural relics about the life, culture and some other things in the old times. So we should continue to study the text to see what conclusion we can conclude from the fact. At first let’s read the third paragraph on Page 75.

Step 4 Retelling the text

Give the students 2 or 3 minutes to prepare, and then ask one of them to retell the text. Show some pictures of the Stonehenge on the screen.

Step 5 Discussion

Turn to Page 77,　give students some time to discuss these questions in groups and then finish Exercise 3.

Step 6 Summary

We learned the objects in the tomb of the King and the importance of the discovery. But the text also hints that cultural relics are very important and valuable. That is not because they can supply us some very important information about the history of human being.

Step 7 Homework

Finish all the exercises in Post-Reading and Word Study on Page 77.